Friedel Dzubas: Affective Color

This catalogue, anchored by Patricia L. Lewy’s essay on Friedel Dzubas, offers an unprecedented examination of the artist’s masterful manipulation of what critic Clement Greenberg termed Color Field aesthetics, while simultaneously contextualizing the artist’s distinctive contribution to post-war American abstraction through the lens of his complex relationship with European painterly traditions, particularly the atmospheric brilliance of Tiepolo’s frescoes. Through careful analysis of pivotal works spanning from his Abstract Expressionist period through his mature style—exemplified by monumental canvases such as Procession (1975) and the chromatically sophisticated First Run (1972)—the publication charts Dzubas’s evolution from Berlin-trained Mischling émigré to essential figure in New York’s avant-garde circles, documenting his technical innovations in soft-edge abstraction while positioning his achievement within the broader theoretical frameworks that shaped American modernism’s engagement with scale, color, and gesture in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Published by Yares Art, New York, 2019

Essay by Patricia L. Lewy

Designed by Tim Laun and Natalie Wedeking

Editorial production by SNAP Editions

Fully illustrated, 66 pages

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